#2017-029 Social protection investments, human capital, and income growth: Simulating the returns to social cash transfers in Uganda Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos, Franziska Gassmann, Pierre Mohnen, Nyasha Tirivayi, Susan Kavuma and Fred Matovu Maastricht Economic and social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU‐MERIT) email: info@merit.unu.edu | website: http://www.merit.unu.edu Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG) email: info‐governance@maastrichtuniversity.nl | website: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/governance Boschstraat 24, 6211 AX Maastricht, The Netherlands Tel: (31) (43) 388 44 00 Working Paper Series